Kodai Abe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kodai Abe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kodai |
| FAMILY NAME | Abe |
| SIGNATURE | ABE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tsukuba |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Picturing Bad Refugees
This essay shows how the United States racialized refugees through photography. American policy makers and news media have deployed photography as a definitive tool in characterizing Haitian “economic migrants” as “bad” refugees in opposition to “good” or “model” refugees from Vietnam. A cluster of black bodies on an unseaworthy boat came to represent an economic and hygienic threat, unlike the Vietnamese who are political victims of an oppressiv…
Transpacific Exceptionalism
This essay shows how Japan and the United States, the two competing imperial powers during the Asia Pacific War, preserved, modified, and reinforced both empires’ exceptionalist ideologies, building a new interimperial hegemony across the Asia Pacific. The “demilitarize and democratize” policy of the American occupation forces soon morphed into an effort to sanction Japan to refashion and redefine its militarism, racism, and neocolonialism to ena…
Refoliating Vietnam in the Post-9/11 American Homeland
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Warring Visions
Reviewed by: Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam by Thy Phu Kodai Abe (bio) Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam, by Thy Phu. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2022. viii + 237 pp. $102.95 cloth. ISBN 978-1-4780-1036-4; $26.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-4780-1075-3. In 2014, the International Festival of Photojournalism (Visa pour l'image) held in Perpignan, France, displayed an exhibition of wartime pictures taken by North Vietnamese pho…
Afro-Asian Antagonism and the Long Korean War
American racial politics during the long Korean War formed what this essay terms Afro-Asian antagonism, a racial hate between African Americans and Asians (and Asian Americans). When the Truman administration issued Executive Order 9981 and proclaimed its commitment to military racial integration in 1948, two years before the outbreak of the Korean War, it seemed to signal a significant step of racial progress. Black servicemen who enlisted in th…
Murakami Haruki's Postmemory of the Asia-Pacific War
This article shows how Murakami Haruki's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994-95) constructs a historical narrative to overcome the victim/perpetrator dichotomy and demands ethical response from readers. Drawing on Marianne Hirsch's term postmemory, the author analyzes the novel as a postmemory generation's struggle over the question of how postmemory generations of a former perpetrator country would be able to ethically respond to a temporally…
Minor Transpacific
One of the most important points of origin of the scholarship currently called transpacific studies can be traced back to 1997, when Elaine Kim and Lisa Lowe called for connections between Asian studies and Asian American studies. Since then, a series of interdisciplinary efforts to bridge the division between Asian (area) studies and Asian American (ethnic) studies has formed a core of transpacific studies. David S. Roh’s Minor Transpacific: Tri…
Traffic in Asian Women by Laura Hyun Yi Kang
Reviewed by: Traffic in Asian Women by Laura Hyun Yi Kang Kodai Abe (bio) Traffic in Asian Women, by Laura Hyun Yi Kang. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020. xi + 339 pp. $104.95 cloth; $28.95 paper. Cloth ISBN 978-1-4780-0880-4; paper ISBN 978-1-4780-0966-5. On December 6, 1991, three Korean women filed a lawsuit at Tokyo District Court. The plaintiffs, with Kim Hak-sun as the only one giving her real name, identified themselves as su…
I Would Cry for You, Mommy
Shedding light on a Korean American daughter's sense of guilt toward her mother, a former Korean comfort woman, this essay reads Nora Okja Keller's novel Comfort Woman (1997) as a text that addresses not so much responsibility as legal duty, but rather response-ability as ethical capacity. After her mother's death, the protagonist Beccah recognizes her own unwitting complicity in American neocolonial violence under the Cold War regime that silenc…
Murakami Haruki's Postmemory of the Asia-Pacific War
This article shows how Murakami Haruki's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994-95) constructs a historical narrative to overcome the victim/perpetrator dichotomy and demands ethical response from readers. Drawing on Marianne Hirsch's term postmemory, the author analyzes the novel as a postmemory generation's struggle over the question of how postmemory generations of a former perpetrator country would be able to ethically respond to a temporally…
I Would Cry for You, Mommy
Shedding light on a Korean American daughter's sense of guilt toward her mother, a former Korean comfort woman, this essay reads Nora Okja Keller's novel Comfort Woman (1997) as a text that addresses not so much responsibility as legal duty, but rather response-ability as ethical capacity. After her mother's death, the protagonist Beccah recognizes her own unwitting complicity in American neocolonial violence under the Cold War regime that silenc…
Traffic in Asian Women by Laura Hyun Yi Kang
Reviewed by: Traffic in Asian Women by Laura Hyun Yi Kang Kodai Abe (bio) Traffic in Asian Women, by Laura Hyun Yi Kang. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020. xi + 339 pp. $104.95 cloth; $28.95 paper. Cloth ISBN 978-1-4780-0880-4; paper ISBN 978-1-4780-0966-5. On December 6, 1991, three Korean women filed a lawsuit at Tokyo District Court. The plaintiffs, with Kim Hak-sun as the only one giving her real name, identified themselves as su…
Minor Transpacific
One of the most important points of origin of the scholarship currently called transpacific studies can be traced back to 1997, when Elaine Kim and Lisa Lowe called for connections between Asian studies and Asian American studies. Since then, a series of interdisciplinary efforts to bridge the division between Asian (area) studies and Asian American (ethnic) studies has formed a core of transpacific studies. David S. Roh’s Minor Transpacific: Tri…
Refoliating Vietnam in the Post-9/11 American Homeland
.
Warring Visions
Reviewed by: Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam by Thy Phu Kodai Abe (bio) Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam, by Thy Phu. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2022. viii + 237 pp. $102.95 cloth. ISBN 978-1-4780-1036-4; $26.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-4780-1075-3. In 2014, the International Festival of Photojournalism (Visa pour l'image) held in Perpignan, France, displayed an exhibition of wartime pictures taken by North Vietnamese pho…
Afro-Asian Antagonism and the Long Korean War
American racial politics during the long Korean War formed what this essay terms Afro-Asian antagonism, a racial hate between African Americans and Asians (and Asian Americans). When the Truman administration issued Executive Order 9981 and proclaimed its commitment to military racial integration in 1948, two years before the outbreak of the Korean War, it seemed to signal a significant step of racial progress. Black servicemen who enlisted in th…
Murakami Haruki's Postmemory of the Asia-Pacific War
This article shows how Murakami Haruki's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994-95) constructs a historical narrative to overcome the victim/perpetrator dichotomy and demands ethical response from readers. Drawing on Marianne Hirsch's term postmemory, the author analyzes the novel as a postmemory generation's struggle over the question of how postmemory generations of a former perpetrator country would be able to ethically respond to a temporally…
Transpacific Exceptionalism
This essay shows how Japan and the United States, the two competing imperial powers during the Asia Pacific War, preserved, modified, and reinforced both empires’ exceptionalist ideologies, building a new interimperial hegemony across the Asia Pacific. The “demilitarize and democratize” policy of the American occupation forces soon morphed into an effort to sanction Japan to refashion and redefine its militarism, racism, and neocolonialism to ena…
Picturing Bad Refugees
This essay shows how the United States racialized refugees through photography. American policy makers and news media have deployed photography as a definitive tool in characterizing Haitian “economic migrants” as “bad” refugees in opposition to “good” or “model” refugees from Vietnam. A cluster of black bodies on an unseaworthy boat came to represent an economic and hygienic threat, unlike the Vietnamese who are political victims of an oppressiv…
History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Japanese History and Culture (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)